Notices by Soatok Dreamseeker (soatok@furry.engineer)

I had heard about the CloudFlare job cuts, what I had not realized is that after announcing them the company lost over 23% of its value in one sitting. I guess the trick of announcing job cuts to pump up your stock doesn't work anymore.

The neologism "slopist" reminds me of solopsism, and they're probably not too philosophically distinct

@phillip more like agentrification

Seeing Cloudflare do a 20% layoff doesn't bode well for the tech industry which already has a problem of too many overqualified people looking for too few jobs.

@pojntfx That post is utter perfection.

https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

Everyone should read this.

It must suck to have psychic powers in this era

"I sense an overwhelming sense of utter stupidity and malice"

Breaking news!

"I fucking knew it."

Find a vuln? Your disclosure options:
1. Exploit it! Plant ransomware, steal cryptocurrency
2. Sell it to a broker. Add "journalist hacked" to the muted words list. Ignorance is bliss
3. Sell to your country's military. Patriotic.
4. Tell people who are affected by disclosing it

Some of y'all give up on your dreams too quickly

@ko Libraries help with the third factor, a bit.

The whole "shh" thing was to protect Americans from McCarthyism after all.

@ko Sure, challenges exist. Didn't say otherwise.

@ko This would be a great idea to organize at a local library.

@Corg Of course

@Corg Cute!

Cow-orker @mle shared this ~2-week-old DigCert incident report today (i blame my Q1 $WORK chaos for me missing it): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2033170… (1/5)

DigiCert — a certificate authority, the entity you're trusting to anchor your entire chain of trust — got compromised because a support analyst opened a .scr file from a chat session. In 2026. CrowdStrike was misconfigured on one endpoint and completely absent on another. Nobody noticed the second compromise for 10 days. The attacker grabbed EV code signing initialization codes and walked out with 60 certificates. Zhong Stealer, signed and shipped. (2/5)

@Profilbild Maybe they just like your vibe

@soatok Partially explains why a lot of "us" have imposter syndrome?

@griotspeak A sufficiently large Markov chain will work

I know even writing that means those who respond either listen in support or prove my point.

I want people to boycott JK Rowling, which means stop watching and buying anything she creates (which means Potterverse especially). As she uses these funds to harm trans people. We have proof with her own words no less that she uses the money that way.

And yet, Potter defenders just derail and attack instead of listening.

I'm just TIRED of it. Diagnosing this may or may not help idk.